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by vacri 10y ago
If it wasn't for "open source mentality", the internet would have ossified in the 90s. People wouldn't be able to put up all the interesting individual sites that they do, and there'd be only a few major companies t
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by vacri 10y ago
It seems more useful as a pidgin language to help people communicate the basics, rather than a language to be considered a prime candidate. "enough to get by" rather than "reasonably complete communication".
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by vacri 10y ago
There's also the issues of roads being designed to be traveled at a certain speed; the limit needing to suit all traffic, including heavy vehicles; and the limit needing to be somewhat suitable for poor weather, because some people d
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by vacri 10y ago
Both the US and Europe are about 10M square kilometers in size, with Europe ending up marginally larger.
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by vacri 10y ago
Sweden has its share of problems. It's not a fantasy state where everything is hunky-dory. The south of Sweden is a European hotspot for anti-semitic violence, for example. It also currently has a spate of hand-grenade attacks by organ
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by vacri 10y ago
Apple, Google, and Valve are creators, and they're also providing the service of being middlemen for you. They deal with hosting, serving, taking payments, so on and so forth. There are AAA companies that have found Steam so much bet
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by vacri 10y ago
Unfortunately voting differently also means voting for social change in other areas, which rural populations usually aren't eager for.
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by vacri 10y ago
AU has had a stable government since it started at Federation, and it's had a first-world government since the definition of 'first-world' started in the '40s. There are few countries as stable as AU has been. > This
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by vacri 10y ago
> We also don't have a good place to store the waste. We've got tons of space to store the waste. The country is right in the middle of a tectonic plate, so little worry about earthquakes, and large swathes of the country are
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by vacri 10y ago
> Windmills really do look bad, objectively. And yet if you were to make the same argument about a coal or even nuclear plant, you'd be considered a loon. Coal plants don't just look awful, they also stink up the surrounding
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by vacri 10y ago
However, few sysv init scripts are the same structure. Each one is written by different people, who do things slightly different ways (and occasionally get things slightly wrong), and on different distros they use different tools. Debugging
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by vacri 10y ago
Counting empty lines and comments is hardly the way to make your point. The mariadb unit file you linked to is only 34 actual lines, the mysql unit file only 22, percona 23. And if you're writing your own unit files rather than ones fo
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by vacri 10y ago
As a taxi service, the unit would have to travel to the client, do the client's run (repeat those two steps if possible), then return to base where the batteries can be swapped out, all while maintaining some degree of emergency reserv
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by vacri 10y ago
FireFox extensions are more powerful than Chrome's, but FF is killing that off this November...
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by vacri 10y ago
A paragraph or so these days is best sent in chat. We use email more for reference stuff in our setup (because searching for references in chat is terrible...)
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by vacri 10y ago
Interestingly, scam detection (rather than spam filtering) is a simple hardcoded rule, which looks at whether the send headers match up. I've received more than a few genuine emails marked as potential scams because they were sent from
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by vacri 10y ago
Yeah, the search box is just ignored by me - I use the 'quick filter' box instead, because it's possible to understand how the results match the query.
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by vacri 10y ago
Looking at the spot prices on our AWS account (us-east-1), most of the time you're looking at around 25% full price. Some instance types seem to go lower than this (r4 is about 12%) but it looks like the 'resting point' is ar
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by vacri 10y ago
It depends on how you read the sentence, I guess. If you read it as "comfortable being together without having to talk", that's a good thing, but read as "good partners 'just know' what the other wants without
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by vacri 10y ago
Your definition of isolationism makes no sense. The alliances that France had with the UK and Russia at the start of WWI served France's own interests, for example, yet France wouldn't be painted as isolationist. Countries make al
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by vacri 10y ago
> I am sad when I look into the eyes of my staff on 457 or working holiday visas .... How do I ask them to help us do our small but proud part in sustaining Australia’s economic growth and providing more jobs for Australians and other i
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by vacri 10y ago
> while everyone claims node's dependencies are hell, I love the choice available (although over time, it's tiring). So... at one place I work, we use nodejs. There are so many modules added using so many files, that we ended
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by vacri 10y ago
At some point, you have to expect personal responsibility. If there weren't any safety signage at all, then there'd be more sympathy. But when you actively reject safety signage that is there to help you , then you're the on
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by vacri 10y ago
I would say that invading the territory of other nations and annexing it counts as involving yourself in the affairs of other nations. Historically, the US didn't want to interfere in Europe, absolutely, but it stuck its fingers in pre
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by vacri 10y ago
> military isolationism was in our DNA ... You mean apart from the Indian wars which annexed territory, the Mexican-American war which annexed territory, and the Spanish-American war which annexed territory? Then there was the War of 1
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by vacri 10y ago
If the US really was working from a 'rights of man' angle that the article suggests, it would have invaded Belgium a couple of decades earlier for what it was doing in the Congo. The whole 'world cop' angle is such a fab
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by vacri 10y ago
If the US's involvement was because of 'defend the rights of man', it sure took it's time getting properly involved. It doesn't even really make sense, because it's not like the Germans were going to enslave th
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by vacri 10y ago
Ah, gotcha. Only young, slim, pretty blokes should be allowed to pay for sex. Old, fat, or ugly blokes having sex is disgusting and they should be shamed into stopping it.
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by vacri 10y ago
You need to be careful of the "holiday effect" with these kinds of comparisons. It's ruined many a biology paper...
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by vacri 10y ago
Sorry, I wasn't pointing it out to correct it, just an amusing-to-me typo. :)

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